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Back to the Postindustrial Future : An Ethnography of Germany's Fastest Shrinking City

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Format Hardback
Book Series EASA Series
ISBN-10 178533798X
ISBN-13 9781785337987
Publisher Berghahn Books
Imprint Berghahn Books
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Mar 26th, 2018
Print length 216 Pages
Weight 510 grams
Dimensions 16.10 x 24.50 x 1.80 cms
KSh 19,050.00
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Back to the Postindustrial Future is the first comprehensive ethnography of the future, approaching Hoyerswerda, Germany's fastest shrinking city, not from the perspective of its past, but persistently from that of its future.

How does an urban community come to terms with the loss of its future? The former socialist model city of Hoyerswerda is an extreme case of a declining postindustrial city. Built to serve the GDR coal industry, it lost over half its population to outmigration after German reunification and the coal industry crisis, leading to the large-scale deconstruction of its cityscape. This book tells the story of its inhabitants, now forced to reconsider their futures. Building on recent theoretical work, it advances a new anthropological approach to time, allowing us to investigate the postindustrial era and the futures it has supposedly lost.


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